LINGUIST List 22.4064 Tue Oct 18 2011 Calls: English, Morphology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Socioling/Turkey Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Alexandra Bagasheva , Lexical Inventiveness in Present-day English Message 1: Lexical Inventiveness in Present-day English Date: 16-Oct-2011 From: Alexandra Bagasheva <abagashevagmail.com> Subject: Lexical Inventiveness in Present-day English E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Lexical Inventiveness in Present-day English Date: 04-Sep-2012 - 08-Sep-2012 Location: Istanbul, Turkey Contact Person: Alexandra Bagasheva Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.essenglish.org/cfp/conf1203.html#ESSE2012 Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: This is a seminar at the 11th ESSE Conference at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 4-8 September 2012. The seminar is to be co-convened by Alexandra Bagasheva (University of Sofia, BG) abagashevagmail.com, Vincent Renner (University of Lyon, FR) vincent.renneruniv-lyon2.fr and Christo Stamenov (University of Sofia, BG) chstamenovabv.bg. The seminar is devoted to the study of lexical creativity and inventiveness in present-day English(es). Call for Papers: This seminar invites papers on any aspect of lexical inventiveness in the widest sense, on all novel and remarkable (rule-governed) formations, (extragrammatical) creations and semantic shifts in the present-day English language. Possible topics of investigation include various creative nonce-formations and lexical metaphors and/or metonymies, neologisms and neonyms, the different motivations for and functions of lexical inventiveness, and also a focus on specific domains such as, for instance, computer-mediated communication. Contributions on all varieties of English, including New Englishes, and on hybrid (i.e. bilingual) formations are welcome. We welcome abstracts of 200 words in .doc or .pdf format, sent as attachments to the following email addresses: abagashevagmail.com vincent.renneruniv-lyon2.fr chstamenovabv.bg Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 March 2012. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.